Everything about Hms Magpie 1943 totally explained
HMS Magpie (U82) was a
Royal Navy Modified
Black Swan class sloop launched in 1943 and broken up in 1959. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to bear the name. The ship was the only vessel commanded by
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who took command on
2 September 1950.
Commissioned on
30 August 1943, during October-November 1943
Magpie was part of the 2nd Search Group in the North Atlantic.
On
31 January 1944 on North Atlantic convoy escort duties, the
Magpie along with the sloops and intercepted and sank, by depth charges, German submarine
U-592 which was on its way to France for repairs.
The following month saw
Magpie involved in destroying
U-238 and
U-734. After serving as an escort during the
D-Day amphibious Allied landings in
Normandy,
Magpie served in British coastal waters, operating from
Greenock as an escort to the
Gibraltar convoys.
Along with others in the Black Swan class she was officially reclassified as a
frigate in 1947. Magpie did duty in
Trieste following riots there over the city’s future, this being a bone of contention between
Italy and
Yugoslavia.
On
3 March 1955 Magpie left
Portsmouth to steam to the 7th Frigate Squadron at
Simonstown, South Africa. Due to be relieved at the Cape Station by her sister ship
HMS Sparrow, boiler problems meant the crew were changed.
Magpie’s crew returned to the UK on the
Sparrow. In 1958
Magpie had her tour of duty at the Cape Station finally completed; she sailed back for the UK for paying off, and was broken up by Hughes Bolkcow,
Blyth,
Northumberland on
12 July 1959.
HMS
Magpie stood in for the moving shots of in the film
Yangtze Incident in
1957.
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